I like to watch… Shakespeare

Farewell to Falstaff: Henry IV, Part Two

Falstaff as fail-safe: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Heir-raising exploits: Henry IV, Part One

Okay, let’s get the bold claim out there: this is Shakespeare’s most perfectly…

Love and revenge in a time of globalisation: The Merchant of Venice

Life is just one damned thing after another: The Life and Death of King John

This is one of the Shakespeare plays that I was completely unfamiliar with before beginning this project, never having read it, let alone taught it. Probably written around 1595–6 (although there’s…

If you go down to the woods today: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Of Wit and Wordplay: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Important issues first: I had a discussion with my wife about the apostrophes in the title in this play, as it seems ambiguous at best how many there should be and in which words they should be located. This has apparently been a longstanding issue, as it…